People often think that their happiness is keyed to happen by going to college. This is simply NOT the case. Some people will be more happy if they go to college and other people in forcing themselves to go to college will just kill themselves from the stress or alcohol or drugs or being away from their family at home.
So, the answer is literally different for everyone. Everyone is different.
in my own case I graduated High School in 1966 when I was 18. I went to a college called Glendale College because I could basically go there almost for free because it was a community college. I was thinking that I would go my first two years of college there and then transfer up to a 4 year institution in my Junior year to save money since I didn't have a college trust fund. in fact as it was I had to drop out of college to pay for my mother's operation because even though my father owned his own business it was much more common then not to have health insurance if you were under age 65 with Medicare then in 1967. So, I worked for a year instead of going to college to pay for my mother's operation. But, I also got to live without paying rent while I worked to help my parents. My parents were very grateful because they never could have afforded the operation for Mom otherwise.
I attended several community colleges over the years age 18 to 40 and became by age 20 a computer operator and computer programmer from what I learned at Glendale College. I tried to be employed by IBM in Los Angeles but at that time they wouldn't look at you for employment unless you had a Bachelor of Science in mathematics if you wanted to work for them. So, I gave that up and worked for businesses who used Computers to do accounting like Foremost McKesson and an Accounting company that did accounting for the biggest Car dealerships in California. So, this I'm sharing with you all happened before I was 22 years old.
I loved going to college but other things in my life were tearing me apart. I always had girlfriends but being alive I didn't personally see the point of. So, whether I lived or died didn't really matter to me. I lived for my parents and my girlfriends out of politeness to them and their love for me.
However, I loved learning new things and traveling new places and meeting new people always. So, this was me. I was a surfer, a skier, a dirt motorcycle rider in the desert. I wanted to be an airline pilot or a Bush Pilot in Alaska (one of the two) I was adventurous. But, my father made me promise to never get my pilot's license until he died. I made this promise because his brother died in a plane crash in 1942 and devastated his whole family with his death. Even though it greatly changed the direction of my life.
But, we all are different people.
I think the best way to say this is that College is like a hammer.
With that hammer you can build 100 houses or you can take that hammer and hit yourself in the head with it and die.
It's up to each person what they do with what they know.
If you don't know yourself enough you aren't going to make it anywhere anyhow.
And drugs and alcohol don't help in all of this but just make things worse.
So, you have to be sober enough to make useful decisions or your life just goes to hell in a hand basket.
Know yourself.
If you learn to know yourself and your REAL needs you are much more likely to live to be in your 70s like me.
Knowing yourself is the most important thing in life.
By God's Grace
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